130: Hidden Card

From the situation just now, Luo Xingyu had always held the advantage, so it probably wasn't her who wanted to fight to the death.

It was most likely Xue Yuhe, who was being suppressed, who chose to go all out, but the question is, was it worth it?

"This is just a Beast Taming Grand Competition, no need to directly self-destruct, right?" Su Ze said somewhat puzzled.

Judging by the power, this self-destruction was even stronger than the two Su Ze had encountered before.

It was likely the self-destruction of a platinum-level beast over level seventy!

A beast of this level, even for them, was enough to serve as a trump card, but now it directly chose to self-destruct.

Even if this could win this match, losing a beast strong enough to be a main force, plus the backlash from the contract, would greatly weaken their strength.

This was simply not worth the loss.

As the dust on the battlefield cleared, the situations of both were revealed.

First was Luo Xingyu, located at the center of the explosion. Her beast, the White Tiger, was inherently a type that sacrificed defense for extreme attack, so under this unavoidable self-destruction attack, it was severely injured and had lost its combat ability.

Even with the protection of her beast, Luo Xingyu suffered very serious injuries and now looked like a bloody mess.

She glared ahead unwillingly; the Sky-Swallowing Toad's skin also had many wounds caused by the explosion's shockwaves.

But this did not affect its combat ability in the slightest, and most crucially, Xue Yuhe's figure was nowhere to be seen on the field.

Then the Sky-Swallowing Toad slowly opened its mouth, and Xue Yuhe, covered in mucus, was spat out.

She disgustedly shook off the mucus on her body, but her expression was very happy.

Because she was protected inside the Sky-Swallowing Toad's belly, she had not suffered any harm.

"The final winner is still me! I've defended my family's honor!" Xue Yuhe pointed at Luo Xingyu excitedly.

Luo Xingyu struggled to stand up at this moment, having to admit that she had been careless just now.

Even if the self-destruction's power couldn't be withstood head-on, she could have moved away from the explosion center to preserve her combat ability as much as possible.

But even she, usually unflappable, had relaxed a bit when about to defeat her opponent, plus she never expected the other party would use a mutually destructive attack like self-destruction.

Luo Xingyu stood up unsteadily; she did not concede.

But this match had no suspense left; Xue Yuhe easily knocked her down.

Thus, the quarterfinal situation was set.

Among the four, three were from the Imperial Capital Beast Taming University, with only Su Ze as an exception, and he was just a number four seed, appearing very out of place.

But having reached this stage, no one dared to question his strength anymore.

"Why does she look completely unaffected?" Su Ze wondered in his heart, looking at Xue Yuhe who was already recovering her stamina.

Xue Yuhe avoided being hurt by her own self-destruction by hiding in the Sky-Swallowing Toad's belly.

However, a beast's death causing huge damage to the master's Spiritual Power was unavoidable, especially in cases of self-destruction.

But now she seemed completely unaffected; Su Ze always felt there was something fishy about this self-destruction.

Perhaps because he had been staring, Xue Yuhe, who was meditating cross-legged, seemed to sense his gaze and opened her eyes to glance at him.

She sneered and said, "To think a Country Bumpkin like you could muddle through to now, but it ends here. The finals can only belong to us from the Imperial Capital Beast Taming University; others have no right!"

Su Ze didn't argue with her either; among the remaining four, her strength was actually the weakest.

But she was also the craziest, actually using self-destruction to win in such an inconsequential match.

If possible, Su Ze would rather fight the other two than this Madwoman.

But things often don't go as one wishes.

After a brief rest to recover stamina, Jiang Ren and Qi Lin had already started staring at each other from a distance, their auras constantly clashing.

"Brother Su Ze, although I look forward to fighting you, I want to settle the grudge between Jiang Ren and me even more. Being second place for too long always breeds some resentment." Qi Lin said with a smile.

Jiang Ren scoffed, "So what? Second place will only ever be second place. I don't care; fighting either of you is the same!"

However, he glanced particularly at Su Ze's side; from the intelligence he got from the Ancestor, he was the one most worth noting.

"Then I'll take action and kick out this outsider who sneaked in!" Xue Yuhe also stood up and said.

The three of them decided the semifinal matchups with their chatter; Su Ze had no chance to interject at all, so in the end, the minority had to yield to the majority.

The four continued upward separately, heading to their next battlefield.

The number of branches ahead had reduced to two; those were their semifinal arenas.

In the end, Su Ze still ended up facing the person he least wanted to meet.

As soon as the two met, Xue Yuhe summoned her beast and shouted, "Country Bumpkin, this is as far as you go!"

Xue Yuhe's fighting style was quite special. She didn't transform her beast, the Sky-Swallowing Toad, in any way. Instead, after summoning it, she lay on its back, letting the Sky-Swallowing Toad attack on its own and using its thick skin to block damage.

When encountering attacks with large area and high power, like her own self-destruction just now, she would hide in the Sky-Swallowing Toad's mouth.

The reason she fought this way had similarities with Su Ze's situation.

Her Sky-Swallowing Toad's level was very high; Su Ze guessed it was over level seventy.

Her own Spiritual Power level had just crossed the sixty-level threshold, so with such a huge level gap, she might not even be able to perform operations like armor or Weaponization on the Sky-Swallowing Toad.

Su Ze also had a huge level gap with the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird, but he could forcibly control her using the system's power, though he couldn't fight for long periods.

Even so, the Sky-Swallowing Toad's power was still there; it was impossible for Su Ze to continue relying only on the Void Spirit Turtle and Shadow Moon Wolf King to win.

"No choice, it's up to you, Qing Yi!"

From the start of the Beast Taming Grand Competition until now, it was the first time a beast summoning array's light appeared behind Su Ze.

Before this, the Void Spirit Turtle had always been carried in a backpack, convenient to use as needed.

The Shadow Moon Wolf King was also summoned from the Shadow Realm; only the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird needed to be summoned from the beast taming space via an array.

"Tsk, another beast? So what, I'll see what kind of trump card you've been hiding until now!" Xue Yuhe initially said somewhat disdainfully.

But as the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird's figure gradually emerged from the beast taming space, she felt the trembling of the Sky-Swallowing Toad beneath her and the emotion called fear transmitted from the other end of the beast contract.

Her expression finally changed, but she still forced a smile and said, "It's okay... I still have that move, I can definitely win!"